Morning Headlines 11/26/12
The 98th Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America begins this weekend under a unifying “Patients First” theme.
GP blames computer for man’s death from ulcer
A UK physician blames the poor usability of his practice EMR as the root cause of a patients death after he failed to prescribe the patient a medication to treat a stomach ulcer.
Welsh First Minister Opens Clinithink’s Development Centre
First Minister of Wales Rt. Hon Carwyn Jones opens Clinithink, a Healthcare IT R&D firm based in Bridgend, Wales.
Matching DNA With Medical Records To Crack Disease And Aging
A recently published research project is matching DNA sequencing data with information from Kaiser Permanente EHR data to identify at risk patients before chronic diseases develop.
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